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Honors Physics Assignments
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| 8/31 Introductions and Expectations Receive Textbooks Return signed expectation
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9/1 Begin Pendulum Lab |
9/2 Continue Pendulum Lab Activity Excel Graphing and Spreadsheet use Journal Entry in class or for HW over the weekend |
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9/4 Labor Day No School |
9/5 Clockmaker lab continued Computer Lab for Excel graphing |
9/6 Lab Report Guidelines Tips and Tricks |
9/7 Begin NOVA: The Search for Longitude video |
9/8 Walk/Jog/Run Lab Activity Outside Graph Walk/Jog/Run using your new Excel Skills or by hand Walk-Jog-Run Lab Activity Outside Data from A/B period |
| Computer Lab for Excel and Lab report work | HW:Read p.3-25 in Holt Physics Answer p.27-9 [5-10,15,27,29,33]
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9/11 Video] WTC - Anatomy of the Collapse WTC website- in relation to both the construction and collapse NIST victims locations report- details where victims were trapped in the buildings Dynamics of Panic article from Boston Globe in 2000
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9/12 Introduction to motion
Position-Time Graphs and Velocity Time graphs |
9/13 Walk/Jog/Run Lab Activity Outside Graph Walk/Jog/Run using your new Excel Skills or by hand Walk-Jog-Run Lab Activity Outside Data from A period Data from E period |
9/14 |
9/15 Lab #1 Graph Matching (introduction to Computer based Lab activities) Journal Entry #3 in class or for HW over the weekend Introduction to website and online homework guidelines |
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9/19 Finish Motion detector Lab activity. Register for
UTexas Online homework service. Remember the Online HW Assignment from UTexas homework service due 9/21 |
9/20 UTexas online HW #01 due by 9am central time other PhyzJob sheets from packet Review Worksheets |
9/21 No School Professional Development Day for Teachers |
9/22 Lab #2- Back and Forth Motion Lab (with LabPro and Motion Detectors) Continue with Back and Forth Motion Lab if needed |
9/24
PhyzJob: Little dots in Motion Wrap up
loose ends with lab and assignments 4th journal entry to be logged |
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9/27 Motion Graphing Activity with CBL devices Lab #3-Modern Galileo Experiment
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9/28
Continue Lab #3, wrapup Return and review pendulum lab
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9/29
Introduce Kinematics Problem Solving strategies |
9/30 | 10/1 |
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10/5
Continue Kinematics |
10/6
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10/7 Video: Crash Tests and Col John Stapp's sled rides Website resources concerning Stapp's rides |
10/8
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10/11 No School |
10/12
Kinematics Quiz- 4 exercises total |
10/13
Inertia Smorgasbord Newton's 1st Law Lecture Evidence of Car Crashes exhibiting Newton's 1st Law |
10/14
Car Crash Science-
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10/15 Newton's 2nd and 3rd law lecture Homecoming! |
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10/18 Introduce Vectors [Beginning of Vector Interlude] |
10/19
Resolution of Vectors into constituent components [ Resolving Worksheet | Composing Worksheet ] West Point Bridge Designer demo- Follow the link
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10/20
Review Vector Worksheets Vector Treasure Hunt on grounds outside (weather permitting)
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10/21
remote Link to Vector Jockey download
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10/22
Vector Quiz? or Tres Hunt? |
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10/25
Review Forces Worksheet |
10/26
Free Body Diagrams Coffee Filter Drop Lab for Terminal Velocity (drag)
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10/27
Review Vector Worksheets Vector Treasure Hunt on grounds outside |
10/28 |
10/29
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11/1 More Vector Jockey fun in computer lab |
11/2
Vector and FBD exercises from Serway and Faughn Chapter 3 Vectors Chapter 4 |
11/3 Continue on Vectors and FBD |
11/4
Review for quarter test
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11/5
Quarter Test (multiple choice and free-response) Last Day of the 1st quarter |
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